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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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China's Ban Kept 100 Billion Plastic Bags Out of the Trash

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CC It's so simple -- so gloriously simple. In 2008, China instated a law that made it illegal for stores to give out plastic bags for free. Instead, shop owners were required to charge for the bags, and allowed to keep any profit they made for themselves. The results?

Can P2P DNS System Kill ICANN After US Domain Seizures?

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Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is fed up with ICANN and working to create a P2P DNS alternative. He sent out a frustrated tweet and Dot-P2P was born. Dot-P2P, a decentralized, BitTorrent-powered DNS system, will pass DNS information through peer-to-peer transfers, working with a new .p2p domain extension.

Remember Salon.com?

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Then too is the news that Salon isn't really sure of where it wants to go. As the New York Observer notes, "In a bid for more ad revenue, Salon also plans to develop lifestyle 'sub-brands' and focus on 'lifestyle' content." If I were in a kindlier mood I'd wager that the wording of the above sentence is meant to keep competitors off the scent. Instead, I'll just call it what it is: Mealy-mouthed.

Portland bomb plot suspect thought living in U.S. was sin

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"To my parents, who held me back from Jihad in the cause of Allah. I say to them, if you make allies with the enemy, then Allah's power will ask you about that on the day of judgment ...," Mohamed Osman Mohamud said in a video he made last month, according to court documents.

DOD using PlayStation consoles to create supercomputer

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What do you get when you string 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 video gaming consoles together? You get the Condor Cluster -- the biggest, fastest interactive computer the Defense Department has.

WikiLeaks Website Brought Down in U.S. and Europe by Powerful' Cyber Attack from China

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China today urged Barack Obama to 'properly handle' the fallout from leaked U.S. embassy documents that revealed Beijing is privately preparing to abandon its ally North Korea.

Bank of America May Be Wikileak's Next Target

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Bank of America may be the next target of a cache of Wikileaks documents.

The Most Spectacular Christmas Trees, Compared

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Today, Rockefeller Center switches on its towering holiday gift to New York: a 74-foot spruce draped with 30,000 lights and 5 miles of wire. But New York's tree is not actually the biggest or the brightest on the block.

Where do babies come from?

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Sometimes we need a better answer to the question.

Snowball Fight Turns into Brawl

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A playful snowball fight turned into a violent brawl involving more than 500 people in the German city of Leipzig.

Hispanics consider forming new 'Tequila Party'

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Latino leaders in Nevada and nationwide are quietly debating whether to sever their traditional Democratic ties and form an independent grass-roots political group.

Poaching the Poachers in India (TIGER JUSTICE)

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"This year, seven poachers have been killed, and there have been lots of encounters."

Are Those Yahoo Layoffs Starting To Roll Out Today?

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After we reported on rumors that Yahoo plans to cut as much as 20 percent of its workforce a few weeks ago, Yahoo called that number

Yesterday Was Cold, Went Out For a Pic, Found This [Pic]

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Yesterday Was Cold, Went OUt For a Pic, Found This

China's Controversial Toothpaste "Darlie"

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Of all the unfamiliar products in a Chinese supermarket, one of the most shocking to American visitors is a toothpaste featuring the logo of a minstrel singer in a top hat, flashing a white smile. Even worse, the toothpaste, Darlie, used to be called Darkie.

20 Great Moments In The ‘Am I Doing This Right?’ Meme

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If you're unfamiliar with the Am I Doing This Right? meme I assure you, you will be all too familiar with it by the time you reach the bottom of the

TSA Officers Hate the Pat Downs As Much As You Do

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So, TSOs, you hate performing these pat downs? They make you uncomfortable? The reaction of the passengers hurts your feelings? Well, good. I don't mean that in a vindictive way. I know that the majority of TSOs are just normal people trying to do their job and make a living. But I'm happy to hear that performing these searches is painful for you because it shows you have a conscience.

8 Great Kinect Hacks

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PC World's David Daw pegs his top eight Kinect hacks from Lightsabers to Windows 7 hijacking. Did your homebrew make his list?

Top Five Unsexiest "Sexy" Songs

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These songs are trying so hard to turn us on, but mostly they just leave a bad taste in our mouth.

The Worst Movies of 2010

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Inspired by an article about the year's box office bombs over at Forbes, let's take a special look at some of the more spectacular failures to hit Hollywood in the past eleven months.

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